Sorry no idea how they pronounce the name I know if I tried it with my Kiwi accent I would mess it up so badly lOL
I am fortunate to have so many nice spots close to here, but if it makes you feel better, this particular walk I took one of the side paths under a bridge and it got real shady, lots of drug paraphernalia and just felt uneasy there so quickly got out of that spot
Oh, yeah, I guess you probably run into that pretty much everywhere these days. It's kind of sad. If I had to guess it might be catch i can.